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Diabetes and cancer news...
San Miguel had its First Annual Conference on Diabetes recently. Both SMA’s Rotary Clubs joined with the Rotary Club of Tallahassee, Florida, and local government were sponsors of the event. Diabetes is a chronic and sometimes debilitating disease. It is estimated that more than 6 percent (6.5 million) Mexicans have the disease. It can affect and damage the eyes, heart, kidneys, as well as hands and feet. Diabetes is high on the list of causes of death in SMA and Guanajuato. High level of sugar in the blood can exceed the kidney’s ability to process it. Without treatment a person with diabetes can eat a lot and still lose weight. Eyes are affected when blood sugar is retained in the clear tissue of the eye and blurs vision. Arteries in the legs and feet can get clogged with high blood sugar levels and cause gangrene, which then leads to amputation. Free diabetes screening is offered at the Health Center in Colonia La Lejona, and the SMA chapter of International Lions have an eye and diabetes testing clinic at Correo 63 each Thursday morning.
SMA is to have a cancer clinic opening in May. CREST Cancer Clinic, the program aims to fill orthodox medicine’s effectiveness gaps, will accept patients who have any stage of the disease. For more information see Lectures below or call Dr. (Alternative Medicine) Allan Sweeney at 044-415-111-0234 or check website
www.crestcancerclinic.com.
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Earth Day is April 22, and Sanmiguelenses will celebrate it with a number of events.
In the Jardín – Photography Show of Juárez Park – 10:00 a.m.
Work Projects Exhibit
Information Booths by city departments and NGOs
Children’s Ballet – 6:00
Pollution Protest – 7:00
Theater “Forest for All” – 7:05
Candles and Bags – 8:00
Fire Show by Gravity Works – 8:20
Power-cutting – 9:00
Documentary – 9:10
At Plaza Principal #8 – Meet with Anthropologist Héctor Alvarez Santiago who will discuss the Prehispanic Philosophy of Nature – 5:00
April 26
– In an event that is closely related to Earth Day, at El Charco del Ingenio and Landeta Park, there will be the annual clean up.
The city government and the botanical garden coordinate this park clean up from 8:00 a.m. until 2:00. All can participate. Meet at the entrance of either park. Wear a hat and comfortable shoes, bring lots of water, work gloves, and use sun block.
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The three SMA traffic circles
(glorietas) are being beautified by the city’s Medio Ambiente and Ecology Departments. Plants that need minimum
watering are being substituted for those that have been in place.
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A new award for SMA artists to strive for is named in honor of Enrique and Nell Fernández Martínez, the founders of Instituto
Allende. The Fernández Martínez award is for artists working in painting/drawing, photography and sculpture under 25 years of age from
SMA. For further information, contact Marilyn Sibley or Ulyses Torrescano at 154-5595
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Apr. 23
– UNESCO has designated this date as World Book and Copyright Day. It is the date on which a number of world famous writers or were born or died. In conjunction, there is the UNESCO Prize for Children’s and Young People’s Literature in the Service of Tolerance. In
SMA, Literary Week will have various events at the Casa de la Cultura, Bellas
Artes, the SMA campus of the Universidad de Leon (Insurgentes 4), Biblioteca Pública and the Santa Ana Theater starting April 19 through 26.
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Groups and Meetings
Apr. 20
- The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship will hear Donna Quathamer, who will tell about the free community center Casa de Los Angeles. The Fellowship, which welcomes people of all ages, races, religions, sexual orientation, and gender identity, meets each Sunday in La Posada de la
Aldea, Ancha de San Antonio 15 at 10:30 a.m. All are welcome.
Apr. 20
– Shalom San Miguel invites community members and visitors to celebrate the 2nd night of Passover in the Hotel Quinta Loreto. For further information and reservations, call Carole at 154-6700.
Apr. 22
- The SMA Midday Rotary Club, which meets weekly in the Hotel Real de Minas, will hear psychiatrist Oscar Canale on “Mental Health Issues Faced by Today’s Mexican Immigrants to the United States.” The meeting starts promptly at 12:30. For more information, go to
www.rotarysma.org.
Apr. 24
– Mujeres en Cambio will sponsor a luncheon at the Hacienda de las Flores, Hospicio 16. Lemon chicken from the China Palace will be featured, and members of the group will bring salads, desserts, coffee or tea. Tickets are available at Casa de
Papel. For further information, call 154-6552.
Apr.25
– American Legion Post 8 will have open house in it new location at Mesones 38, in local 6 of El Meson de San Jose from 5:00 to 7:00.. Allan Gross will give a bilingual talk on “Veteran’s and Veteran’s family benefits. For further information, call 044-415-113-6820.
Apr. 26
– CASA’s (Center for the Adolescent of SMA) Spring Sale will take place in the patios of CASA, Santa Julia 15, Colonia Santa Julia from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00. After your Spring Cleaning, give CASA a chance to pass your not needed items on to someone else. Call Elsbeth at 152-2813 or Ana Peña at 154-6060.
Once again the SMA Garden Club will have a photo contest for 16 photos of SMA to be used, rather as a calendar, but forming a package of tear-out postcards. For more information, contact
Jane@JaneSallis.com with “photo contest” as your subject.
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Lectures
Apr. 23
– Dr. Allan Sweeney will talk about the CREST Cancer Clinic, which is to pen in SMA in May. The talk will be in the Biblioteca Pública’s Sala Quetzal at 6:30.
Apr. 25
– Dr. Craig Landry, who is organizing an ageing-reversal group, will speak about “Enjoyable Detoxification, Nutrition and Aging Reversal” in the Biblioteca Pública’s Sala Quetzal at 4:30.
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Tours
Apr. 20
- The House and Garden Tour begins gathering at the Biblioteca Pública at 11:00 a.m. and leaves at noon.
Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, a walking tour of historic SMA led by SMA volunteers leaves the Jardín in front of the
Parroquia. The tour lasts a little over two hours and is mostly level walking. Taking part in the tour helps provide medical and dental care for children in need through Patronato Pro Niños.
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Movies
Biblioteca Cinemateca
Apr 19
– Kids Matinee – Vintage Cartoons – noon – FREE
– Opera Film – Rigoletto – 2:30
Apr 21
– Saudade do Futuro, Doc. Port/Eng – 3:00
– Lost and Found in Mexico, Doc. Eng – 5:00
Apr 22
– The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh, Doc. Eng – 3:00
– Unknown White Male, Doc. Eng – 5:00
Apr 23
– Paris, Je t’Aime, Fr/Eng – 3:00
– Momento, Eng – 4:00
Apr 24
– Female (1933) – 3:00
Apr 25
– The Shadow Circus: The CIA in Tibet, Doc. Eng – 3:00
Apr 26
– Kids Matinee – Vintage Cartoons – noon – FREE
– Ballet Film – Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream – 2:30
MM Cinemas –
For schedule www.mmcinemas.com or 120-4743
Movie Pocket Theater – El Market Bistro, Hernández Macías 95 – 1:30, 4:00 & 7:00
Movies About Writers
Apr 19 – Il Postino (The Postman) - 1994
Apr 20 – Before Night Falls – 2000
Apr 21 – Wilde – 1997
Apr 22 – Henry & June – 1990
Apr 23 – The Worst of All – 1990
Apr 24 – The Hours – 2002
Apr 25 – Infamous - 2006
Villa Jacaranda
Apr 19 & 4-20
– The Birdcage – 5:00
– Stardust – 7:30
Apr 21, 22 & 23
– Dreamgirls – 5:00
– Frida
Apr 24, 25 & 26
– Like Water for Chocolate – 5:00
– Oliver Twist – 7:30
Apr 27 & 28
– Pan’s Labyrinth – 5:00
– Ray Charles – 7:30
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Performing Arts
Apr. 21
– Guitarist Javier “Javivi” Estrada will give a benefit concert to support Cereka in the Santa Ana Theater at 7:00. Cereka provides care in the rehabilitation of people with neurological psychological and behavioral problems.
Apr. 21
– Sergio Basurto will give a concert of folklore harp and flamenco guitar in the Biblioteca Publica’s Sala Quetzal at 7:30. Entrance at Reloj 50A.
Apr. 23 & 24
– SMA Playreaders will read the comedy “Seascape,” the 1975 Pulitzer Prize winner by Edward
Albee. Readers are Cris Cooley, Sharon Frantz, Henry Vermillion and Britt
Zaist. Irving Kohn supplies light and sound and Paula Lopuch directs. St. Paul’s Parish Hall doors, Calle Cardo 6, will open at 7:00, and the action begins at 7:30, earlier if the house fills.
Apr. 24
– SMA’s Community Choir, Coro Voces Unidas, will present its Springtime Concert in the Angela Peralta Theater, corner of Mesones and Hernández Macías, at 7:00.
Exhibitions and Openings
Apr. 18
– Bellas Artes, Hernández Macías 75, hosts an art opening for Tokyo artist Sae
Otomo. The exhibit will continue through May 31.
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Workshops and Classes
Chess workshops for adults are held on Mondays in the patio of the Biblioteca Pública. FREE Saturdays, chess is the game at Casa de la Cultura on Chorro from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 and Wednesdays at Mama Mia’s, Umaran 8, from 5:00 to 7:00.
Apr. 23 to May 30
- Ana María Muñoz will teach an Acting Workshop using Actors Studio Method with Raúl Serrano’s Physical Action Method mixed in. The classes will be in the Santa Ana Theater on Wednesdays and Fridays from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00. For further information and registration, contact
munoz_anamaria@yahoo.ca.
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